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Create Markdown How-To Guides in Chrome in seconds
How you can use Tango and a simple Python script to quickly create how-to guides in Markdown format
TL;DR: Record with Tango, copy the content to clipboard & run the script in johschmidt42/tango-process-markdown
While looking for ways to speed up the documentation process as a programmer, I came across Chrome extensions that promise to create how-to guides in the browser in seconds with screenshots and automatic descriptions. The most popular representative of this family of tools is Scribe (formerly ScribeHow). Similar tools are: Minerva, Dubble or Tango
The workflow is always the same:
- Install the extension in Chrome
- Record your steps in the browser
- Generate and edit the how-to guide
- Export to a format of your choice
This all is very simple and inviting… until we want to export the how-to guide to the Markdown format so that we can use it for documentation! This is a very common use case for many programmers. For example, mkdocs requires markdown files to generate documentation. Scribe & others offer this on the PRO subscription only! This can be very costly.
